Amidst another summer of heatwaves, droughts and wildfires forcing Canadians to flee their homes, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) continues to own and invest in companies that are prolonging the use of fossil fuels and making the climate crisis worse. In some cases, CPPIB is directly financing the expansion of oil and gas infrastructure, causing more carbon pollution to be pumped into the atmosphere and betting the world will fail to limit global warming to safe levels.

Shift, represented by environmental law charity Ecojustice, has written to Canada's Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) warning that the OCA is severely underestimating the systemic financial risks of climate change in its valuation assessments. Shift and Ecojustice are concerned that the OCA is failing to assess the cascading economic and financial impacts of a rapidly warming world. This could have potentially severe consequences for the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and the Public Sector Pension Plan (PSPP), which collectively have more than $1 trillion in retirement savings under management on behalf of millions of Canadians.